Should my dad become a mactoddler?

Is windows causing him problems? My dad is 60 and hates change. At all.
Trying to learn a new OS will probably be worse even if a mac is "better."

>>59038011

windows is just overcomplicating everything

im not sure if he'd hate changes but for example here is one of the things he'd like to do:

>open folder A , B , C
>open folder D

drag pictures from A,B,C and put them into D and he thinks they will automatically sort themselves in the way he drags them in.

i remind him that windows sorts them based on various data points and that all his efforts can be gone with a click of a button.

The way hes trying to do it and thinks is pretty logical but Windows is a shit.

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>>59037974
>just werks.

>>59037974
MacOS is shit though. It's trying too hard to be different from Windows and as a result is broken in more ways than windows.

Let him use what he already knows, you'll only make it even more complicated by forcing him to learn an even worse OS than windows.

yes but don't force him, macOS is the goat old person system.

few months of work in IT support quickly taught me that even though I may think something is better, if user is happy with what he has, DO NOT FUCKING TOUCH IT.

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>>59037974
Why would you want your father to convert to a shit OS where he can lose all his pictures just from moving them around?

>>59038294

WRONG

https://support.apple.com/kb/PH25633?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US

Merge two folders with the same name
If you have two folders with identical names at two different locations, you can merge them into a single folder.

Press and hold the Option key, then drag one folder to the location that contains a folder with the same name. In the dialog that appears, click Merge.

The Merge option appears only if one of the folders contains items that are not in the other folder. If the folders contain different versions of identically named files, the only options are Stop or Replace.

To organize your files automatically, use Smart Folders. Smart Folders automatically gather files by type and subject matter, and are instantly updated as you change, add, and remove files on your Mac.

>>59038338
You have to hold the option key to merge when copying?

Windows doesn't suffer from this bullshit, it just works.

Why don't you fucking ask him. Take him to a store and let him check the OS.

If he doesn't want it, let him fiddle with wangblows

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>>59038066
How would this problem be resolved by changing to a Mac?

I Hope you Backup his stuff, if He loses it, He will die being a broken sad man

>>59038635

yes i constantly back it all up

im aware that this data loss would kill him pretty much instantly

>>59037974
>my dad is almost 80
How fucking old are you and why are you posting here?

>>59037974
I'm confused. Why does he need to switch to Mac? Windows sounds like it's working for him.

>>59038656
Glad to hear that

>>59037974
Install gentoo for him.. HFS+ will fuck him in the ass and all pics will be gone

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>>59038660
>le sekrit club for cool kids

>>59037974
Get him a adobe photographers plan for a year. Lightroom is best. Just set up a directory mirror for the catalog to a another drive if he doesn't have a backup system

>>59038705
>Browsing a taiwanese cartoon board past 30+
What a sad life

>>59038660
>>59038719

fuck off ... we made this website what it is today

we have the right to be here kids!!

>>59037974
>80 y/o
>wintoddler/mactoddler
Ugh...

Anyway, just gift him a MacBook and teach him how to use it, when he get used probably will love it (or hate it).

>>59037974
He should try Temple OS or Coffin OS